It's Friday, October 1st. If you can believe that, I am getting

interested.

On today's show, the union that represents production crews on TV and film sets starts

voting today about a strike authorization and we hear from some of the members. Plus,

we're going to play spets on which bear will be the fattest for fat bear.

Very excited to hear your pick. But first, we want to give you a quick update on what's

happening in Congress. As we go to record this on Thursday night, a few things remain

up in the air. But for now, I'm happy to report that the Senate and the House have approved

a short term spending bill to keep the government open until early December. And then we get

to do it all over again. It also provides some funds for disaster relief nationwide,

as well as to support the resettlement of Afghan refugees. As we've said before, government

shutdowns are really catastrophic and disruptive. Definitely not something we want to be dealing

with or territory want to be in at all. So this is good news that we're avoiding this.

Yeah. And so what updates do we have on these other more complicated pieces of the puzzle,

the big bills, if you will, that are up in the air. So the first is a $3.5 trillion billed

back better act. That is Joe Biden's signature plan. It includes funding for lots of social

priorities like fighting climate change, expanding childcare and early education, creating

paid family and medical leave and lowering prescription drug costs. But that $3.5 trillion bill

is where Democrats need both senators, Joe Manchin and Kiersten Sinema to join the rest

of the party to get it passed. But they are currently holding out. Manchin is having his

usual issues. He's saying that he'd support the bill if it was $1.5 trillion. But that is

about $2 trillion less than, you know, it's it's been and that's a lot less money to do a lot less

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